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Itching to get your hands on a copy of Rod Blagojevich's new "tell-all" book The Governor? Yeah, neither are we. But, should you want one, they apparently can be had. WBBM's Steve Miller reports that he was able to pick up a copy early and that stores are already selling it. The AP also got a copy and reports on some of things within, such as Blago admitting he wanted to appoint Lisa Madigan to President Obama's vacant Senate seat and says he picked Burris for the spot because of his big ego. Without reading anything in the book, we can also (probably) boil the rest down: he did nothing wrong, he will be vindicated, it was the fault of others. There you go.

WBBM 96.3 FM has named the replacement team for the ousted Eddie and Jobo. Jamar "J Niice" McNeil and Julian Nieh (pictured right)will make their debut as "J Niice & Julian on the Radio" on Monday morning, filling in the 5:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. timeslot.

The two were at Clear Channel's WIHT-FM in Washington a few years back. Nieh left that station to become WBBM's weeknight host in mid-2006 and McNeil joined B96 this spring from Clear Channel's WHYI-FM in Miami.

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We've got three classic cartoons for you today, all Chicago originals. First up is "Suzy Snowflake" which debuted on WBBM in December 1953. Enjoy!

Larry Mendte, who worked at Chicago's WBBM-TV in the early 90s, has been sentenced after pleading guilty in August to hacking into former co-worker Alycia Lane's email account and leaking embarrassing communications she had with NFL Network's Rich Eisen. Mendte was given six months of house arrest and three years of probation. Here's Larry "Crash Override" Mendte in happier, wetter times: